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The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [1 ...
Mathew H. Ahmann (September 10, 1931 – December 31, 2001) was an American Catholic layman and civil rights activist.He was a leader of the Catholic Church's involvement in the civil rights movement, and in 1960 founded and became the executive director of the National Catholic Council for Interracial Justice.
On July 17, 2020, Lewis died in Atlanta at the age of 80, [177] [178] [179] on the same day in the same city as his friend and fellow civil rights activist C.T. Vivian. [180] Lewis had been the final surviving "Big Six" civil rights icon. Then-president Donald Trump ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff in response to Lewis's death. [181]
The Big Six were incarcerated together in Kumasi, [91] increasing the rift between Nkrumah and the others, who blamed him for the riots and their detention. After the colonial government learned that there were plots to storm the prison, the six were separated, with Nkrumah sent to Lawra ; all six were freed in April 1948.
The Big Six were six leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), one of the leading political parties in the British colony of the Gold Coast, known after independence as Ghana. They were detained by the colonial authorities in 1948 following disturbances that led to the killing of three World War II veterans .
James Edward Orange was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1960s. [4] Orange, at over 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall [5] [4] and over 300 pounds (140 kg), [6] was physically impressive but deeply committed to non-violence.
Beatrice Boeke-Cadbury (1884–1976) – English social activist, educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist; Carl Bonnevie (1881–1972) – Norwegian jurist and peace activist; Bono (born 1960) – Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist; born Paul David Hewson [3]
activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official Reies Tijerina: 1926 2015 United States: Hispano activist Jackie Forster: 1926 1998 United Kingdom: English lesbian rights activist Hosea Williams: 1926 2000 United States: civil rights activist, SCLC organizer and strategist Cesar Chavez: 1927 1993 United States